
San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison Small-time drug smuggler Thomas Mc Fadden found himself on the inside Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs drugs & corruption to come out on top Thomas found himself in a bizarre world the prison reflecting all that is wrong with South American society Prisoners have to pay an entrance fee & buy their own cells (the alternative is to sleep outside & die of exposure) prisoners' wives & children often live inside too high quality cocaine is manufactured & sold from the prison Thomas ended up making a living by giving backpackers tours of the prison
- he became a fixture on the backpacking circuit & was named in the Lonely Planet guide to Bolivia When he was told that for a bribe of 5000 his sentence could be overturned it was the many backpackers who'd passed through who sent him the money Written by lawyer Rusty Young Marching Powder
- sometimes shocking sometimes funny is a riveting story of survival